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Patent EP-0824799-B1 (EP)
Inventor: GERSHENFELD NEIL
IPC: G06F3/033
Filed: 1996-05-01
Granted: 2002-08-21
Abstract: A wireless system includes a transmitter (14) and a receiver (22) that are coupled through a user (10) and room ground (11). The transmitter produces low-frequency, low power signals that, through capacitive coupling, pass as displacement currents (13) into and from the body of the user. The shared room ground provides the return path for the current. The transmitter includes an inner electrode (18) and an outer electrode and a signal generator (16) that produces modulated signals, which vary the voltage between the electrodes. The inner electrode is closely coupled capacitively to the user's body such that the 'quasi-electrostatic' field resulting from the electrode potential causes a displacement current to pass to the user's body. The outer electrode is oriented so that its coupling to the room ground is stronger than that of the inner electrode, such that room ground acts as a return path for the current from the receiver. The receiver similarly includes a pair of electrodes (24, 26), and also a detector/demodulator (28) that acquires and tracks the transmitted signal. One of the receiver electrodes (24) is closely coupled capacitively to the user's body such that displacement current that passes from the body passes to that electrode. The current then flows through detector circuitry to the other electrode(26), which is asymmetrically coupled capacitively to room ground, to complete the path for the current. The detector circuitry detects the current and operates in a conventional manner to recover the transmitted information therefrom. One or more receivers may be carried by other users or may be located in fixed positions around a room, and the return path can be a combination of air and earth ground. Accordingly, the user need not physically contact the receivers to pass information to them. Alternatively, the receivers may be mounted as an array on a computer screen, with the transmitter located on the keyboard.
Patent EP-0837904-B1 (EP)
Inventor: PEIFFER DENNIS GEORGE
IPC: C08L23/02
Filed: 1996-07-03
Granted: 2000-03-15
Abstract: Une forme d'exécution de la présente invention concerne une composition comprenant une proportion majeure d'une polyoléfine ou d'un copolymère polyoléfinique et une proportion mineure d'un polymère ionomère à faible poids moléculaire et d'un tensioactif anionique.
Patent EP-0794952-B1 (EP)
Inventor: PODSZUN WOLFGANG
IPC: A61K6/083
Filed: 1996-07-08
Granted: 2000-02-23
Abstract: New polymerisable aromatic carboxylic acids and carboxylic acid anhydrides with cyclic carbonate groups are disclosed, as well as formulations that contain these compounds and that are preferably used in dental technology.
Patent EP-0842388-B1 (EP)
Inventor: FRENCH JOHN ROBERT
IPC: F41H11/16
Filed: 1996-08-20
Granted: 2000-11-15
Abstract: PCT No. PCT/GB96/02030 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 13, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 13, 1998 PCT Filed Aug. 20, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/08508 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 6, 1997An apparatus for and method of detonating unexploded mines is disclosed. A ground-engaging foot is caused to reciprocate by power means with sufficient force to activate an unexploded mine. Control means is used to control the manner of reciprocation of the foot by controlling the power applied to the foot. A shock absorption arrangement absorbs shock energy created upon detonation of an unexploding mine. Preferably the apparatus is vehicle mounted for example upon a remotely controlled tracked vehicle.
Patent EP-0885548-B1 (EP)
Inventor: CARTER PAUL MICHAEL
IPC: A61F11/00
Filed: 1996-09-06
Granted: 2001-03-07
Abstract: Disclosed is an arrangement allowing for automatic calculation of stimulation parameters, for example dynamic ranges for stimulation, in an auditory prosthesis, for example a multichannel cochlear implant. The arrangement includes, in a preferred form, an electrode 12 for detecting activity of the stapedius muscle, and uses the electrode array 5 to sense neural response to stimulation, so that a maximum comfortable stimulation level and threshold level for each channel can be determined. The process may be initiated by the implantee, avoiding the requirement for external equipment and extensive audiological testing.
Patent EP-0896767-B1 (EP)
Inventor: TERRY JOHN BRIAN
IPC: H04L12/46
Filed: 1996-09-11
Granted: 2003-01-22
Abstract: Access to a CSMA/CD (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection) network is provided via a telephone line by providing a master modem at the head end and a slave modem at the subscriber end of the line. The master modem provides a CSMA/CD interface to the network and controls half duplex communications with the slave modem via the line to avoid collisions of information packets on the line. The information packets are enveloped in frames on the line with error checking information; control information between the modems is contained in the same and/or in separate frames. The modulation method and signal bandwidth can be varied depending on errors to provide optimum communications capacity via any particular line, and a ratio of upstream to downstream information packets can be varied depending on buffer fills at the modems. The master modem can be multiplexed for multiple lines. The modulated signal frequencies are above telephone signal frequencies so that each line can be frequency diplexed for simultaneous telephone communications.
Patent EP-0853687-B1 (EP)
Inventor: WEBB STEVEN P
IPC: C25B1/30
Filed: 1996-09-13
Granted: 1999-09-08
Abstract: Cette invention se rapporte à une membrane composite destinée aux synthèses chimiques, à un réacteur chimique à l'intérieur duquel on peut incorporer ladite membrane composite et à un procédé d'utilisation de ladite membrane composite. La membrane composite comporte un substrat, une première face et une seconde face, le substrat reliant fonctionnellement la première face qui comporte un catalyseur oxydant et la seconde face qui comporte un catalyseur réducteur. Ledit catalyseur réducteur comporte, sous forme élémentaire ou combinée, du lanthane, du zinc, du cérium, du praésodyme, du néodyme, du samarium, de l'europium, du gadolinium, du terbium, du dysprosium, de l'holmium, de l'erbium, du thulium, de l'ytterbium, du lutétium, du bismuth ou de l'indium. Un réacteur chimique qui fait usage de ce type de membrane composite peut faire réagir l'hydrogène et l'oxygène de façon à former du peroxyde d'hydrogène sans mélange direct des réactifs.
Patent EP-0806811-B1 (EP)
Inventor: DELARUE BERNHARD
IPC: H01R4/48
Filed: 1997-04-18
Granted: 2002-07-17
Abstract: A resilient connector for maintaining an electrical conductor in side-by-side conductive engagement with a bus bar includes a generally loop- or O-shaped resilient contact body having a first end portion, an intermediate portion arranged generally normal to the intermediate portion, and a second end portion that is normally arranged at an acute angle relative to the contact intermediate portion, the contact first end portion containing a window opening having first and second opposed edges remote from and adjacent the intermediate portion, respectively, the second contact end portion being displaceable from a normal first position adjacent the first window edge toward a second position adjacent the second window edge, whereby when the second contact end is displaced to its second position and a conductor and a bus bar are introduced in side-by-side electrically conductive relation within the window, release of the second end portion causes the conductor and the bus bar to be clamped in tight electrical contact by the cooperation between the second contact end portion and by the first window edge. In order to prevent permanent distortion of the contact body, a stop member is mounted within the contact cavity for limiting movement of the second contact end beyond the second position. Consequently, the stop member permits the use of the contact arrangement in fixed pole applications where the bus bar and the compression spring are to be installed from above or below a housing within which the electrical components are contained.
Patent EP-0794127-B1 (EP)
Inventor: BROWN PAUL EDWARD
IPC: B65D47/20
Filed: 1992-12-02
Granted: 2000-06-28
Abstract: A dispensing valve (3) for fluid product packaging comprising: a flange (4); a valve head (5) having a marginal edge (42) and interior and exterior sides (39, 38) and an orifice (6); a resiliently flexible sleeve (7), with one end portion (50) thereof connected with the flange (4), and an opposite head end portion (49) thereof connected with said head (5) adjacent the marginal edge thereof. When pressure is applied to the head the sleeve has a doubled over rolling exterior rim (65) which rolls along the sleeve to be at the head end portion (49) of the sleeve when the sleeve is in a fully extended configuration thereof in which the orifice is closed, forces applied thereafter to the head by the sleeve and pressure in excess of the predetermined discharge pressure causing an unrolling of the doubled over rim (65) as the orifice (6) opens. The valve quickly and accurately achieves a balance between container, valve and fluid product. <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0814430-B1 (EP)
Inventor: GRANGEAT PIERRE
IPC: G06T5/00
Filed: 1997-06-16
Granted: 2003-05-14
Abstract: The image restoration has three main stages. The first is to obtain a sequence of raw images of the moving body from appropriate detectors. The second determines a law of movement from the sequence of images. The third modifies the raw images, applying a suitability criterion, a spatial regularisation criterion and a temporal regularisation criterion. In all cases, the law of movement of the object is considered. The criteria are expressed as an error function between the restored image and the raw data, with minimum error corresponding to the ideal restoration. Movement is estimated from the reconstructed raw images by filtering and retro-projection. Temporal regularisation weights each image point with its precision of estimation.
Patent EP-0818798-B1 (EP)
Inventor: LENCO PATRICK
IPC: H01H71/08
Filed: 1997-07-08
Granted: 2002-03-27
Abstract: The output terminals (14P, 14N) of the phase and neutral supply circuits (12P, 12N) are on the same exterior surface (22) of the insulating case (11) as their input terminals (13P, 13N). Between the inputs and the insulating partition (15) is the cut-off section (18) which has a space (58) for an electromagnetic circuit breaker (59) with or without a thermal circuit breaker (60). A hole in the side wall (22) at right angles to the cut-off section allows access to the terminals. The transformer core (41) is part of a subassembly comprising an insulating body which is flush with the side face (22) of the case and which has a fork piece to hold output terminal on the primary turns.
Patent EP-0848202-B1 (EP)
Inventor: HUGUES FRANCOIS
IPC: C08L23/02
Filed: 1997-11-27
Granted: 2003-02-05
Abstract: An extruded or injected plastic tube, containing fillers to improve acoustic insulation properties has ≥ 2 adjoining coaxial layers (1,2) showing a common surface. They are an outer layer (1) of conventional plastic and an inner layer (2) containing a filler to at least improve acoustic insulation properties.
Patent EP-0873130-B1 (EP)
Inventor: PFIRRMANN ROLF
IPC: A61K31/549
Filed: 1997-01-09
Granted: 2004-03-31
Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions for use in medicine, e.g. as infusion or surgical rinse solutions, and to processes for their preparation. The compositions of the invention comprise an aqueous solution of physiologically inert PVP having a weight average molecular weight in the range of from 3,000 to 14,000 daltons.
Patent EP-0869986-B1 (EP)
Inventor: HELLER JORGE
IPC: A61L27/00
Filed: 1997-01-03
Granted: 2000-11-02
Abstract: The present invention relates to polymers useful as orthopedic implants or vehicles for the sustained delivery of pharmaceutical, cosmetic and agricultural agents. The polymers are prepared in such a manner that the rate and degree to which they are hydrolyzed can be controlled without addition of exogeneous acid. This discovery resides in the incorporation of esters of short-chain  alpha -hydroxy acids such as esters of glycolic acid, lactic acid or glycolic-co-lactic acid copolymer into the polymer chain and variation of the amount of these esters relative to the polymer as a whole.
Patent EP-0818324-B1 (EP)
Inventor: EBEL BRIAN JOHN
IPC: B42F9/00
Filed: 1997-01-24
Granted: 2000-03-08
Abstract: A bookbinding unit comprises an integral cover body (10) formed by a front cover (12), spine (14) and a back cover (16), an elastic clam (20) in the form of a U-shaped groove mounted to the back cover (14), and a rigid and/or elastically biased slider (30) in the form of a U-shaped groove adapted to be slidably inserted into the clamp (20) to hold upper end edges (22a, 22b) of the clamp (20) leaving space therebetween. An elastic grasping force between both the upper end edges (22a, 22b) of the clamp (20) is set to be sufficient to semi-permanently fix documents (42) inserted and mounted in the clamp (20). In addition, the clamp (20) and the slider (30) are formed by metal or plastics and set to have substantially the same lengths as that of the cover body (10). <IMAGE>
Patent EP-0882366-B1 (EP)
Inventor: LOW COLIN
IPC: G06F40/00
Filed: 1997-02-20
Granted: 2001-11-14
Abstract: Content items (49) are held on Internet servers (51) with each item being locatable at a corresponding URI and having an associated identifying number ('1234567') that can be input using a telephone keypad. A PSTN is provided with an intelligent peripheral (70) that has connectivity with the Internet (50). To access a particular content item (49), a telephone user (A) inputs a service designator code ('333') followed by the identifying number ('1234567') of the required content item (49). The intelligent peripheral (70) translates the input identifying number to the URI of the required item. This URI is then used by the intelligent peripheral (70) to retrieve the required content item and deliver it to the telephone user (A), typically as a speech rendition of the item.
Patent EP-0885098-B1 (EP)
Inventor: GOETTSCHE REIMER
IPC: B27K3/14
Filed: 1997-02-28
Granted: 2002-06-12
Abstract: PCT No. PCT/EP97/00966 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 28, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 28, 1998 PCT Filed Feb. 28, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97/32700 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 12, 1997The use of a wood preservative for the afterprotection of wood, comprising a copper compound, a polyamine and an inorganic fungicide, and a bandage for the afterprotection of wood, which contains this wood preservative, is described.
Patent EP-0907657-B1 (EP)
Inventor: HELMINEN JARKKO
IPC: C11C3/12
Filed: 1997-03-14
Granted: 2001-09-12
Abstract: PCT No. PCT/FI97/00170 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 15, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 15, 1998 PCT Filed Mar. 14, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97/34917 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 25, 1997The invention relates to a process for catalytic hydrogenation of non-hormonal unsaturated plant steroids and unsaturated plant-based fatty acids and triglycerides thereof using a metal catalyst bound to a polymer support containing grafted groups. The invention also relates to regeneration of a used catalyst.
Patent EP-0920250-B1 (EP)
Inventor: RUUSUNEN JARKKO
IPC: A01L7/10
Filed: 1997-07-01
Granted: 2002-04-17
Abstract: A method of shoeing a horse using plastic nails. The nails are driven through a horse's hoof and the projecting plastic ends are secured.
Patent EP-0970419-B1 (EP)
Inventor: REYNAR JEFFREY C
IPC: G06F5/00
Filed: 1997-08-04
Granted: 2007-07-04
Abstract: An adaptive compression technique which is an improvement to Lempel-Ziv (LZ) compression techniques, both as applied for purposes of reducing required storage space and for reducing the transmission time associated with transferring data from point to point. Pre-filled compression dictionaries are utilized to address the problem with prior Lempel-Ziv techniques in which the compression software starts with an empty compression dictionary, whereby little compression is achieved until the dictionary has been filled with sequences common in the data being compressed. In accordance with the invention, the compression dictionary is pre-filled, prior to the beginning of the data compression, with letter sequences, words and/or phrases frequent in the domain from which the data being compressed is drawn. The letter sequences, words, and/or phrases used in the pre-filled compression dictionary may be determined by statistically sampling text data from the same genre of text. Multiple pre-filled dictionaries may be utilized by the compression software at the beginning of the compression process, where the most appropriate dictionary for maximum compression is identified and used to compress the current data. These modifications are made to any of the known Lempel-Ziv compression techniques based on the variants detailed in 1977 and 1978 articles by Ziv and Lempel.
Patent EP-0939611-B1 (EP)
Inventor: HOESSEL PETER
IPC: A61K8/37
Filed: 1997-12-19
Granted: 2001-10-17
Abstract: Aqueous preparations comprisinga) from 0.1 to 10% by weight of a copolymer based on N-vinylcaprolactam, N-vinylpyrrolidone and N-vinylimidazole andb) from 0.1 to 10% by weight of at least one polyoxyethylene C6-C15-monoalkyl ether,and their use in cosmetic formulations are described.
Patent EP-0990810-B1 (EP)
Inventor: OETIKER HANS
IPC: F16D3/84
Filed: 1998-10-02
Granted: 2003-05-02
Abstract: A bellows-type cover (10) into which a clamping member (40) is adapted to be securely integrated to form a pre-assembled unit; a groove-shaped recess near one end of the bellows-type cover between first (20) and second (22) retaining means adapted to receive the clamping member has a two-tier positioning arrangement (11) with a radially inward, circumferentially extending bottom surface (27) for engagement by the clamping member when fully tightened and with a temporary bottom for the clamping member to provide a releasable self-retaining support for the closed, but not yet fully tightened clamping member at a radial distance between te bottom surface and the radially outer limit of the recess.
Patent EP-0915222-B1 (EP)
Inventor: POUSSARD JEAN-CLAUDE
IPC: G01V15/00
Filed: 1998-10-01
Granted: 2003-04-16
Abstract: This invention relates to an antitheft collar for bottles, characterized in that it consists of two hinged half-rings that comprise additional removable locking means (12, 13) to ensure that the collar is locked around the neck of a bottle, whereby at least one (2) of half-rings (2, 3) comprises means (102, 142) for attaching a detectable device that is able to trigger a remote alarm, whereby the inside surface of each of the half-rings comprises a number of flanges (4) that are intended to come into contact and are deformed on the neck of the bottle when the collar is closed, whereby flanges (4) can be deformed so as to make it possible for the collar to fit bottle necks of various diameters.
Patent EP-0966855-B1 (EP)
Inventor: AMIN UMESH J
IPC: H04W4/12
Filed: 1998-02-03
Granted: 2010-06-23
Abstract: Les resources d'un réseau associées à un réseau de télécommunications sans fil sont attribuées à un dispositif de télécommunications sans fil en fonction du type du dispositif et du type du service requis. Un profil, associé à chacun des dispositifs de télécommunications sans fil, comporte un champ de repérage de la classe d'itinéraire identifiant le type du dispositif de télécommunications sans fil, et un champ de repérage de la classe de service identifiant le type de service requis par le dispositif. Il est possible de traiter différents dispositifs de télécommunications sans fils à l'aide de différents profils. Les profils sont emmagasinés en permanence en un point de gestion de services accessible depuis différents centres mobiles de services.
Patent EP-1017768-B1 (EP)
Inventor: WATTS RAYMOND FREDERICK
IPC: C10M107/02
Filed: 1998-03-19
Granted: 2001-08-08
Abstract: On améliore la durabilité de la caractéristique anti-vibration des liquides de transmission, et notamment des liquides pour transmissions automatiques, en incorporant à ces liquides une combinaison de phosphonates d'alkyle, d'agents dispersants sans cendre et de détergents métalliques.
Patent EP-0984943-B1 (EP)
Inventor: PETERS DAN
IPC: A61K31/55
Filed: 1998-05-29
Granted: 2002-12-11
Abstract: Compounds of formula (1) or (2), enantiomers thereof, mixtures thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof:wherein: n is 0, or 1; R is hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, aryl or aralkyl; and R<1 >is aryl optionally substituted with alkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxy, cycloalkoxy, thioalkoxy, thiocycloalkoxy, methylenedioxy, aryloxy, halogen, CF3, OCF3, CN, amino, nitro, aryl, or a monocyclic 5 to 6-membered heteroaryl group, or R is a monocyclic 5 to 6-membered heteroaryl group optionally substituted with alkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxy, cycloalkoxy, thioalkoxy, thiocycloalkoxy, methylenedioxy, aryloxy, halogen, CF3, OCF3, CN, amino, nitro, aryl, or a monocyclic 5 to 6-membered heteraryl group, or R is a bicyclic heteroaryl group composed of a monocyclic 5 to 6-membered heteroaryl group fused to a benzene ring, optionally substituted with alkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxy, cycloalkoxy, thioalkoxy, thiocycloalkoxy, methylenedioxy, aryloxy, halogen, CF3, OCF3, CN, amino, nitro, aryl, or a monocyclic 5 to 6-membered heteroaryl group. The compounds, enantiomers, and salts are useful as ligands for nicotinic ACh receptors.
Patent EP-0912990-B1 (EP)
Inventor: VOLLKOMMER FRANK
IPC: H01J61/92
Filed: 1998-03-20
Granted: 2003-06-04
Abstract: A gas discharge lamp having a discharge vessel (202) which is at least partially transparent and filled with a gas filling, a number of essentially strip-shaped anodes (205, 206) and cathodes (203, 204) which extend on the walls of the discharge vessel and essentially parallel to each other, and a dielectric layer (215) between at least the anodes and the gas filling for a dielectrically impeded discharge in the discharge vessel between neighboring anodes and cathodes, characterized in that at least one anode pair (205) is arranged between two cathodes (203, 204) respectively adjacent to one anode pair.
Patent EP-0998610-B1 (EP)
Inventor: CAMOMILLA GABRIELE
IPC: E01F15/02
Filed: 1998-06-26
Granted: 2002-09-11
Abstract: Steel-made New Jersey type barrier, comprising "monolithic" modular elements including uprights and handrails, obtained from adequately folded and welded sheet steel pieces (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). Every 1,5 meters there are provided vertical structural elements (3, 4) having a width of 15 cm and producing a "reticulated structure or lattice work", and a space (14) being provided for the insertion of ductile anchor means (32), which are used for fixing the barrier on its support (31). Every 3 meters said vertical structural element "extends upwards" forming the upright or post (13) for supporting the handrail tube (15). There are provided special connections between modular elements, to be used at the site of the expansion joints between the spans of a viaduct.